September 11, 2001

Where were you on this fateful day? Do you remember what happened on that day? Well, I do, and I will never forget it.

We had been in our mobile home that we bought a little over a month, and my daughter just started kindergarten. I was getting her up for school and her TV was on. We didn't have cable at the time and there was no antenna on it so the signal was very snowy, but she did get the Fox network channel. On the tv, I could just make out the World Trade Center and someone was giving the play by play as it was happening live I saw the first plane hit. At the time, it was not know to be a terrorist act.

Then I went into the living room where the reception was much better and turned on the tv. I sat there with my daughter and watched the second plane hit. I believe that at that time it was known that the planes had been hijacked. I felt really horrible.

I drove my daughter to her school and people were just starting to talk about it. I turned on the radio and rushed to work where everyone was huddled around the television in the conference room. We sat there and watched as people jumped and fell from the upper floors. Then we watched in horror as first one tower, then the other collapsed. No one spoke for the longest time. There wasn't a dry eye in the place.

Eventually, the owner told us to get back to work and that we could listen to the radio or get on the internet at our desks to keep us updated.

I don't think that we really got any work done that day, and not much that whole week.

Even though we really couldn't afford it, the next day, we signed up for cable tv so we could see what was going on.

I was so glad when we went into Afghanistan and then later Iraq. I know there are those who criticize the President, and for most of those people, I have nothing but contempt. And those who say we brought what happened on that day seven years ago on ourselves, I have one thing to say to you, "head or gut."

Going over there and killing these worthless scumbags was the right thing to do no matter how the media and the liberal jackasses try to demonize the President's actions. And all the men and women who have sacrificed everything to do their duty are the true heroes.

So, to those men and women who died on that day and to the families and those who had loved ones killed in that act of overwhelming cowardice, my thoughts and prayers will always be with you.

Freedom is never free.